{"id":508645,"date":"2026-02-17T23:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508645"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:27:55","slug":"mourinho-points-finger-at-vini-jr-amid-racism-scandal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mourinho-points-finger-at-vini-jr-amid-racism-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho points finger at Vini Jr amid racism scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Mourinho has controversially shared that his team\u2019s \u00a0&#8216;cannot be a racist club&#8217; after Los Blancos forward Vinicius Junior accused 1 of his footballers of abuse during Real Madrid\u2019s 1-0 victory over the Eagles in the UCL knockout play-offs. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, the ex-manager of the Royal club has said that Vini incited today\u2019s chaos in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid\u2019s 1-0 triumph in Lisbon was halted for 10 minutes in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half after the Brazilian superstar scored. Vinicius wheeled away to celebrate in front of the home supporters, and that caused, before the match restarted, Benfica midfielder Gianluca Prestianni to approach the forward on the halfway line, before lifting his shirt over his mouth and whispering something, prompting a furious response from both the Brazilian and Mbappe.<\/p>\n<p>After protesting with the official, \u00a0FIFA&#8217;s racism protocol was initiated, and the match was halted. Vini left the pitch, discussing the situation with both managers. Eventually, the game resumed, and Los Blancos kept its 1-goal lead until the end and will have an advantage before the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Jos\u00e9 Mourinho on Vinicius Jr: \u201cWhen it happens in so many stadiums, always with the same, there is something wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told Vini: you scored a wonder goal, why did you celebrate like that? Why can\u2019t you celebrate a goal with just the happiness of being a great player?\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sv4mXOV8Vm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Sv4mXOV8Vm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2023896301834850517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Mourinho has controversially shared that his team\u2019s \u00a0&#8216;cannot be a racist club&#8217; after Los Blancos forward Vinicius Junior accused 1 of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508649,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17865,21159],"news_category":[142,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17866,21160],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Jose claimed that Benfica can\u2019t be a racist club.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508648,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508645\/revisions\/508648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508645"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508645"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}